of moving apart, devolution in scotland, northern ireland and wales and then centralisation in england, we are now all talking about empowering local communities. and with a detailed plan to make the uk work for scotland and wales, as well as for the regions, we tell both yes voters and no voters that we can reunite the country. the issue now is no longer independence vote is to the status quo in scotland but change within the uk to benefit scotland versus change by leaving the uk, which would do damage to scotland. and so i believe today we can give people hope, removing the dead hand of centralisation, we are proposing that there be a government notjust proposing that there be a government not just of the proposing that there be a government notjust of the people and for the people, but a government by the people, but a government by the people, for there is a basic truth upon which we build all the recommendations of our report that you will see in detail today, and again i want to
we are now going to take some questions from the media, and i know it has been a race with the trains to see who arrived and in what order they arrive, but i am going to do my best on who i know and think is here. beth from sky news, can we take you first, i can see you arrived safely. take you first, i can see you arrived safely. take you first, i can see you arrived safel . ,, ., ., ., arrived safely. keir starmer, at a time when arrived safely. keir starmer, at a time when people arrived safely. keir starmer, at a time when people are arrived safely. keir starmer, at a time when people are struggling| arrived safely. keir starmer, at a i time when people are struggling to pay their bills, feed their families and are striking over pay settlements, you have produced a 155 page report talking about devolution, constitution, reform and abolishing the house of lords, this might look to many people as completely out of touch, and you could look like another politician talking to we
arrive with a report and with recommendations. and when we set up the commission, gordon and i talked about the terms of reference, and in the report itself, i wanted, and the report delivers, recommendations capable of being implemented within the first five years of a labour government, so very clear about that. we will now have a consultation to refine, to test, but also to make sure that we can answer the question when and how are you going to implement? so that if you are going to make such a big transfer of power away from whitehall to lots of places across the country, then we obviously need to have the discussion about how thatis to have the discussion about how that is going to be done, because this is not going to be a talking shop. the reason we are doing the consultation now between now and drafting the manifesto, and before the election is, i don t want to do the election is, i don t want to do the talking afterwards. so we are not looking at consulting when we are in powe
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anyone can make a halfway sensible argument for hereditary peers. 0f argument for hereditary peers. of course that needs to be done. what i would say is the house of lords reforms within this report are really important but they have to be seen as part of the much wider package of devolution of power away from westminster and whitehall to communities, both politically and economically. that s the driving issue that goes through this report. that was the central thing that i wanted answered. house of lords reform is part of that because i don t think you can have a serious discussion about the future of the uk without addressing the house of lords, which is not capable of being defended, in my view. 0n the location of any second chamber, the report doesn t make any recommendations in relation to that. i think the discussion is much more likely to be, what s their make up, etc. one of the important thing is about place and one of the regulations in the report you will